However, many on X noted how the political views espoused by the account under Routh’s name were not exclusively pro-Democrat. The account described voting for Trump when he won the presidency in 2016 and expressed support for a White House ticket combining the unsuccessful Republican presidential primary contenders Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley.

The account’s most recent post was addressed to Harris, timed in between Trump’s failed 13 July assassination at a political rally in Pennsylvania and when she replaced Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket after the president opted to halt his re-election campaign. The post said the vice-president and Biden should visit two spectators wounded and attend the funeral of a rally-goer slain at the shooting before the attacker was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper.

Tasked with examining pregnancy-related deaths to improve maternal health, the experts, including 10 doctors, deemed hers “preventable” and said the hospital’s delay in performing the critical procedure had a “large” impact on her fatal outcome.

Their reviews of individual patient cases are not made public. But ProPublica obtained reports that confirm that at least two women have already died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state.

There are almost certainly others.

In January of 2023, Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended U.S. diplomats who had come forward to report suspected incidents. "Their pain is real," he said then. "I have no higher priority than the health and safety of each of you."

At that same time, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said it was "very unlikely" that a foreign adversary was responsible for the AHIs reported. Some published reports have suggested that the symptoms were characteristic of "mass psychogenic illness." The declassified report rejects that, finding that the AHIs "do not fit criteria for mass psychogenic illness."

Of particular concern was the evidence that some of the cases occurred on American soil. In 2019 a White House official reported symptoms while walking her dog in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C.

Media outlets have been barred from the proceedings, which are expected to unfold with testimony from the media titan and the four children named in the trust over the next week, according to the New York Times, which first brought the dispute to light after obtaining copies of sealed court documents.

These types of family battles often end in settlements. The case could also be prolonged, if it ends in a decision that one side chooses to appeal against.

Prudence is Mr Murdoch's eldest child, from his marriage to his first wife Patricia Booker.

In the name of scientific advancement, clinical education and fiscal expediency, the bodies of the destitute in the Dallas-Fort Worth region have been routinely collected from hospital beds, nursing homes and homeless encampments and used for training or research without their consent — and often without the approval of any survivors, an NBC News investigation found.

The judges agreed, until the conservatives sought to include an additional proposition that mandated anyone seeking to enforce the Constitution’s ban on insurrectionist candidates get congressional approval. Four justices—Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Amy Coney Barrett—thought that idea went too far, and wrote concurrences in disagreement. Roberts himself wrote the majority opinion.

Roberts also took charge of the court’s ruling that declared the government went too far in charging those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.

He had initially assigned the case to Samuel Alito but abruptly took it over himself days after the Times revealed Alito’s wife Martha-Ann hung an upside-down U.S. flag—an emblem of the “Stop the Steal” movement, and propagated by some Jan. 6 rioters—outside his home, according to the Times. It was unclear whether the two episodes were linked; none of the justices answered the Times’ questions

The average life expectancy for American corrections officers is 59, compared with 75 in the general population, according to the Vera Institute of Justice. Officers also experience higher than average rates of depression, PTSD and suicidality.

It was these bleak statistics that in 2019 drove Washington’s corrections secretary at the time, Stephen Sinclair, to explore the Norway model after hearing an Amend presentation at a conference.

Like other states, Washington’s intention has been to adapt elements of Norway’s system, rather than create a carbon copy, and to empower staff and incarcerated people to come up with ideas. “It’s very fluid and dynamic,” Grubb said.

Great info, but a little boring. I suggest speeding it up a bit.

If he loses the 2024 presidential election, former President Donald Trump will likely lobby House Republicans to refuse to certify the results.

This was not as much of a problem in 2020 when Democrats held the majority of seats, but with Republicans now holding a narrow majority, it could become a legitimate issue.

However, Politico reports that a bipartisan group of House lawmakers have banded together to jointly pledge to certify the results of the 2024 presidential election, and the group so far includes six House Republicans.

This means that, should these six Republicans keep their pledge to certify a win for Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump's allies would be unable to block the certification of the election given the current numbers in the House of Representatives.

A three-judge panel at the second circuit denied Trump’s request, citing Judge Juan Merchan’s delay of Trump’s sentencing date to 26 November from 18 September. Merchan wrote that he wanted to avoid the unwarranted perception of a political motive.

Merchan will now decide on 12 November whether the case should be dismissed because of the supreme court’s immunity decision, which stemmed from a separate, federal criminal case Trump faces over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. Trump has pleaded not guilty in that case, amid many legal woes still hanging over him.

Speaking to WIRED on Tuesday, a senior FCC official said that the final net neutrality order has been updated to ensure that paid fast lanes in consumer-facing products violate the agency’s rules. The official also said that providers couldn’t mask consumer products as enterprise ones to skirt the rules.

In April, the FCC reinstated net neutrality rules that would reclassify broadband, once again, as a “common carrier” service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. By reinstating net neutrality, the agency can prevent internet service providers, like AT&T and Verizon, from blocking, throttling, or offering pay-to-play fast lanes to online services.

The court concluded that pregnant women in the state have a "fundamental right to choose abortion before viability exists under the enumerated and unenumerated interests protected by" the state's constitution.

"The Court concludes [the law] violates the Constitution of the State of North Dakota and is void for vagueness and of no effect," the order said.

Romanick wrote that implicit in the right to personal autonomy, liberty and happiness is "a woman’s right and responsibility to decide what her pregnancy demands of her in the context of her life and in the context of her health."

"Prior to viability, a woman must retain the ultimate control over her own destiny, her own body, and ultimately the path of her life," he continued. "A woman’s choice of whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term shapes the very nature and future course of her life, on nearly every possible level. The Court finds that such a choice, at least pre-viability, must belong to the individual woman and not to the government. "

As part of his criminal case over Jan. 6, federal prosecutors described the rioter, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, as a “white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer,” who told his coworkers at a naval weapons station that “Hitler should have finished the job” and “babies born with any deformities or disabilities should be shot in the forehead.”

Court filings featured multiple pictures of Hale-Cusanelli at work with a “Hitler mustache.” A lengthy online video he posted in 2020 attacked what he called a “Hasidic Jewish invasion” of New Jersey and compared orthodox Jews to a “plague of locusts.”

Judge Juan Merchan had partially terminated the order after the former president was found guilty in May on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. With the trial over, Merchan ended the order’s restrictions related to trial witnesses and the jury, but he kept them in place for speech targeting Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s staff, court staff, their family members as well as family members of Bragg and Merchan.

“I don’t know that I would characterize it as [an] active, recruited, knowing asset in the way that people in the intelligence community think of that term," McCabe said. "But I do think that Donald Trump has given us many reasons to question his approach to the Russia problem in the United States, and I think his approach to interacting with Vladimir Putin, be it phone calls, face-to-face meetings, the things that he has said in public about Putin, all raise significant questions.”

McCabe raised suspicions about Trump's attitude toward Ukraine and NATO in the face of Russian aggression and said he's had concerns about his admiration for Vladimir Putin since the ex-president fired him in March 2018, two days before he was due to retire, during the FBI's investigation of Kremlin interference in the 2016 election.

Almost 95% of the union members - who produce planes including the 737 Max and 777 - voted in the ballot rejected the pay deal.

Of those who voted, 96% back strike action until a new agreement is reached.

As well as a 25% pay rise over four years, the preliminary agreement that workers rejected included a commitment from Boeing to build its next commercial plane in the Seattle area if the project started during the lifetime of the contract.

The union had initially targeted a number of improvements to workers' packages, including a 40% pay rise.

On the face of it, it is hard to see a quick solution unless Boeing capitulates.

The US Secret Service said the decision to treat the procedure at the Capitol as a "national special security event" was made after they received numerous calls from politicians, including Washington's mayor.

The agency said the classification will allow for "significant resources" at local, state and federal levels and a "comprehensive security plan".

This will be the first time lawmakers confirm election results since the US Capitol riot, when supporters of former President Donald Trump violently breached the complex.

Thursday’s oral arguments pitted plaintiffs against state officials in a challenge over DeSantis’ 2022 congressional map that eliminated a district where Black voters had consistently elected their preferred candidates for three decades. DeSantis’ map dismantled the former 5th Congressional District, which stretched about 200 miles across North Florida from Jacksonville to Tallahassee and was formerly held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Al Lawson. In its stead, DeSantis spread those Black voters across four separate districts, all of which elected white Republicans in 2022.

Alito reported two trips for which he received transportation, food, or lodging in 2022. He received lodging and meals during a trip to Duke University to teach a class, and he was reimbursed for a four-day trip to Rome paid for by Notre Dame Law School.

Alito reported one gift in 2023: concert tickets worth $900 from Gloria von Thurn und Taxis. A recent article in Tatler, the British high society magazine, indicated that von Thurn und Taxis, a German princess, is best known these days “as a Catholic activist and proselyte.” The form does not indicate who played at the concert.

Alito continues to maintain a robust investment portfolio that contains mutual funds but also shares in individual companies – including Molson Coors, 3M, Abbott Laboratories, Boeing, Caterpillar, and Dow – that sometimes appear at the court.

The attorney, Adam Richardson, also included DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody in his petition, alleging that they have “waged a campaign to interfere with the election.” Richardson asked justices “to forbid them from misusing or abusing their offices and agencies to interfere with the election for Amendment 4.”

Justices could have dismissed Richardson’s complaint. Instead, they ordered the agency to respond to his allegations by 5 p.m. on Sept. 23.

The lawsuit is the most significant legal pushback so far to DeSantis’ efforts to marshal state resources to defeat Amendment 4, which would overturn the state’s six-week abortion ban if passed by 60% of voters in November. The amendment says, in part, that “no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.”

Using closed captioning of the videos we downloaded before the videos were removed, we've compiled lists of terms frequently mentioned in them, along with a searchable database:

In his ruling Thursday, Davis granted parts of both sides' motions, denying other parts. He agreed with Newsmax that not all of the allegedly defamatory statements had been proven false, allowing it to dispute falsity at trial. He also said there was no evidence that Newsmax was acting with intent to harm Smartmatic with its coverage.

But in wins for Smartmatic, he ruled firmly that the rigged election claims were definitely false, published by Newsmax and specific to Smartmatic.

"Power is intoxicating and based on Trump's rhetoric and conduct it appears unlikely that he would respect the power of the presidency in all instances; rather, he would abuse it for personal and political gain, and not on behalf of the American people," he added.

Gonzales cited the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as one of the "most revealing" examples of Trump's conduct, saying the former president "failed to do his duty" that day. The former attorney general also pointed to the convictions and criminal charges Trump faces, saying they "show that Trump is someone who fails to act, time and time again, in accordance with the rule of law," and casting doubt on whether he "has the integrity and character to responsibly wield the power of the presidency within the limits of the law."

It's actually not a bad recap of the debate.

The U.S. Trade Representative's said that many of the tariffs, including a 100% duty on Chinese EVs, 50% on solar cells and 25% on steel, aluminum, EV batteries and key minerals, would go into effect on Sept. 27.

The USTR determination published on Friday but first reviewed by Reuters, showed a 50% duty on Chinese semiconductors, which now include two new categories - polysilicon used in solar panels and silicon wafers - are due to start in 2025.

Adjustments to the punitive "Section 301" tariffs on $18 billion worth of goods announced in May by President Joe Biden were minimal and disregarded auto industry pleas for lower tariffs on graphite and critical minerals needed for EV battery production because they are still too dependent on Chinese supplies.

The rules update the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which was passed in 2008, requiring health insurance plans to provide the same access to mental health care as medical care. The new provisions will force health insurance plans to collect and report more robust data on how they limit and deny mental health claims. If disparities exist between mental and medical care, insurers will need to lay out how they are attempting to address these gaps.

“Mental health care is health care. But for far too many Americans, critical care and treatments are out of reach,” President Joe Biden said in a press release announcing the final rules. “There is no reason that breaking your arm should be treated differently than having a mental health condition.”

Nevada will soon become the first state to use AI to help speed up the decision-making process when ruling on appeals that impact people's unemployment benefits.

The state's Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation (DETR) agreed to pay Google $1,383,838 for the AI technology, a 2024 budget document shows, and it will be launched within the "next several months," Nevada officials told Gizmodo.

Nevada's first-of-its-kind AI will rely on a Google cloud service called Vertex AI Studio. Connecting to Google's servers, the state will fine-tune the AI system to only reference information from DETR's database, which officials think will ensure its decisions are "more tailored" and the system provides "more accurate results," Gizmodo reported.

> Opening statements before District Judge Leonie Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia start later today. The BBC notes that the Justice Department plans to argue that Google's parent company, Alphabet, illegally operates a monopoly in the online advertising market. However, Alphabet denies the allegations, claiming that its success is due to the "effectiveness" of its services. > > The Justice Department claims Google established its monopoly through the anti-competitive acquisitions of smaller ad-tech rivals and even bullying website publishers into using its ad products. Google is also said to have unethically controlled key businesses in each part of the advertising supply chain, thereby driving up ad rates for advertisers while reducing the payouts to website owners. > > Pointing out Google's systematic abuse of the online ad business, the DoJ will ask the court to break up the company's ad-tech monopoly. The agency believes a breakup would create new opportunities for Google's smaller competitors and incentivize new players to enter the market. It will also be better for both advertisers and publishers.

When and where is the debate?

The debate begins at 6:00 PST and 9:00 EST on Tuesday 10 September.

It takes place live on US network ABC from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The event will last 90 minutes with two commercial breaks, and there will be no audience in the room.

It will be streamed live on the BBC News channel. You will be able to watch on the BBC News website and app via our live page.

The BBC will have a team of reporters in Philadelphia and in Washington providing analysis, fact checks and reactions as part of our live coverage.

DAVID MUIR: Vice President Harris, your thoughts on this?

VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: I think it's – I mean honestly, I think it's a tragedy that we have someone who wants to be president who has consistently over the course of his career attempted to use race to divide the American people. You know, I do believe that the vast majority of us know that we have so much more in common than what separates us. And we don't want this kind of approach that is just constantly trying to divide us, and especially by race. And let's remember how Donald Trump started. He was a, a, a—land, he owned land, he owned buildings, and he was investigated because he refused to rent property to Black families. Let's remember, this is the same individual who took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the execution of five young Black and Latino boys who were innocent, the Central Park Five. Took out a full-page ad calling for their execution. This is the same individual who spread birther lies about the first Black President of the United States. And I think the American people want better than that. Want better than this. Want someone who understands as I do, I travel our country, we see in each other a friend. We see in each other a neighbor. We don't want a leader who is constantly trying to have Americans point their fingers at each other. I meet with people all the time who tell me "Can we please just have discourse about how we're going to invest in the aspirations and the ambitions and the dreams of the American people?" Knowing that regardless of people's color or the language their grandmother speaks we all have the same dreams and aspirations and want a president who invests in those, not in hate and division.

DAVID MUIR: Vice President Harris thank you. Linsey?

LINSEY DAVIS: President Trump, this is now your third time --

FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP: This is the most divisive presidency in the history of our country. There's never been anything like it. They're destroying our country. And they come up with things like what she just said going back many, many years when a lot of people including Mayor Bloomberg agreed with me on the Central Park Five. They admitted -- they said, they pled guilty. And I said, "Well if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately. And if they pled guilty -- then they pled we're not guilty." But this is a person that has to stretch back years, 40, 50 years ago because there's nothing now.

“They’re doing what they’re supposed to do,” DeSantis said when asked during a news conference in Miami Lakes on Monday.

His comments were the first he’s made publicly on a broad and unusual effort by the Florida Department of State. In the last two weeks, the state sent requests to at least six county elections supervisors seeking copies of tens of thousands of signed and verified petitions in support of Amendment 4. The amendment, if approved by 60% of voters in November, would protect abortion access in Florida until viability.

State police have also knocked on some Floridians’ doors to question whether they really signed petitions to get the amendment on the ballot. The group behind the amendment collected nearly 1 million verified petitions.

One county supervisor told the Times the requests from the state were unprecedented. The state did not ask for rejected petitions — which have been the basis for past fraud cases — but instead only asked for already verified signatures.

The facility, operated by the oil giant Marathon Petroleum, is the third largest refinery in the US, strategically situated near the Gulf of Mexico and along the banks of the Mississippi River. Its importance to the multibillion-dollar corporation, and purportedly to Louisiana’s economy, has largely overpowered the concerns of the communities that sit a stone’s throw from its stacks.

Residents of these lower-income, historically Black neighborhoods have been caught in the middle of a political tug-of-war. The Biden-Harris administration has sought tougher enforcement in the region, while the state, under the leadership of Donald Trump’s far-right allies, has pushed back in favor of industry – making the outcome of the 2024 presidential race all the more important to people who live in the Marathon fenceline communities of Garyville, Lions and Reserve.

His initial strategy to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month is expected to fail and deal House Republicans an embarrassing blow. Due to their paper-thin majority, Republicans can afford only a handful of GOP defections on the vote, and many more than that have publicly voiced their opposition.

But the party’s standard bearer, Donald Trump, has called on Johnson and Republicans to shut down the government if they can’t link a funding bill to the SAVE Act, which would overhaul voting laws to require people to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

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In a federal court ruling last month, the National Marine Fisheries Service was ordered to rewrite a critical opinion on endangered species in the Gulf upon which federal agencies rely to issue new permits and other authorizations for offshore drilling. The court found the fisheries service had failed to reflect the real dangers posed by oil and gas drilling in its current opinion, which is now scheduled to be invalidated on Dec. 20.

But the agency has said it could take until spring to complete the document, leaving the Department of Interior no clear path to manage offshore oil and gas drilling there, said Erik Milito, president of the National Ocean Industries Association.

Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Wednesday that he is pulling a short-term GOP government funding bill from the House floor amid significant defections on his right flank.

“No vote today,” Johnson told reporters just hours ahead of the scheduled vote on the bill, which included a controversial measure that targets noncitizen voting. “We are having thoughtful conversations, family conversations within the Republican Conference and I believe we will get there.”

The decision to pull the vote once again highlights the deep internal divisions within the House GOP conference and the major challenge facing the speaker as he attempts to navigate an extremely narrow majority as well as demands from former President Donald Trump.

Sam Mendel and Eric Kim launched their company, NetworkOcean, out of startup accelerator Y Combinator on August 15 by announcing plans to dunk a small capsule filled with GPU servers into San Francisco Bay within a month. “There's this vital opportunity to build more efficient computer infrastructure that we're gonna rely on for decades to come,” Mendel says.

The founders contend that moving data centers off land would slow ocean temperature rise by drawing less power and letting seawater cool the capsule’s shell, supplementing its internal cooling system. NetworkOcean’s founders have said a location in the bay would deliver fast processing speeds for the region’s buzzing AI economy.

But scientists who study the hundreds of square miles of brackish water say even the slightest heat or disturbance from NetworkOcean’s submersible could trigger toxic algae blooms and harm wildlife. And WIRED inquiries to several California and US agencies who oversee the bay found that NetworkOcean has been pursuing its initial test of an underwater data center without having sought, much less received, any permits from key regulators.

Former AT&T Illinois boss Paul La Schiazza’s bribery trial could easily have been lost in the parade of major public corruption cases at Chicago’s federal courthouse.

But fate — in the form of the U.S. Supreme Court — stepped in, leading to a six-month delay in the blockbuster racketeering case of the man La Schiazza is accused of bribing: then-House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Now the spotlight is squarely on La Schiazza and his trial beginning Tuesday at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, where he stands accused of a scheme to funnel $22,500 in payments to a Madigan associate in exchange for the speaker’s help passing legislation important to the phone giant.

Instead of a retread of evidence, La Schiazza’s case is now expected to offer a sneak preview of a key part of the ex-speaker’s own trial, which kicks off Oct. 8.

Among the new evidence will be testimony from former Madigan insider Tom Cullen, a lobbyist who prosecutors allege served as a go-between for the payments from AT&T to former state Rep. Edward Acevedo. Another witness, former AT&T lobbyist Stephen Selcke, is expected to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the utility’s efforts to get in Madigan’s good graces.

That afternoon the then president’s son, Don Trump Jr, posted on Twitter (now X) an invitation to Trump supporters to assemble. He wrote: “It would be great if you guys would all get together and head down to McAllen and give Kamala Harris a nice Trump Train welcome. Get out there. Have some fun. Enjoy it.”

The vehicles in the Trump train swarmed around the tour bus, coming within inches of it and forcing the driver to slow to a crawl. Several of the participants livestreamed their actions on social media, bragging about their aggressive driving, the plaintiffs allege.

One of the defendants, Eliazar Cisneros, is accused of side-swiping an SUV being driven by a Biden-Harris campaign staffer behind the bus. The complaint says that Cisneros later boasted about “slamming that fucker”.

The occupants of the bus pleaded with police to provide an escort but none appeared. A separate case, Cervini v Stapp, was settled in October with local law enforcement admitting that they had fallen short of their standards and agreeing to pay compensation to those whose safety they failed to protect.

Since April 2022, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has spent over $221 million in taxpayer money transporting nearly 120,000 migrants to six Democrat-led cities outside of the state, the Washington Examinerrevealed Thursday.

"That's roughly $1,841 per person," noted Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council who has previously criticized Abbott's "dehumanizing" bus scheme and other elements of the governor's Operation Lone Star.

"By comparison, a bus ticket to New York costs about $215, while a flight costs about $350," he highlighted. "It would have WAY cheaper to just give migrants money for tickets. Abbott's effort not only made it a political stunt, it lined a contractor's pocket."